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inequality in OECD nations. We assess the effects of four debt dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Instrumental … whether debt is endogenous to or interactive with globalisation. First, when external debt is endogenous to globalisation, the … effect on inclusive human development is negative, whereas when it is interactive with globalisation, the effect is positive …
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The concept of exploitation is central in social and political theory, but there is no precise, widely accepted … definition. This paper analyses John Roemer’s seminal theory, which construes exploitation as a distributive injustice arising … Roemer’s static economies is set up and several doubts are raised on the claim that exploitation can be reduced to a kind of …
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The object of this paper is to complement theoretical ‘mobile penetration’ literature with empirical evidence in a dual manner: on the one hand, assess the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and; on the other hand, the instrumentality of good governance in this nexus....
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piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are … the incidence of piracy on inequality in Africa: a continent with stubbornly high poverty and inequality rates. …Purpose – Poverty and inequality undoubtedly remain substantial challenges to economic and human developments amid …
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survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the ‘mobile phone’-inequality …
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This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...
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This paper examines how domestic, foreign, private and public investments affect income-inequality through financial … channels of depth and activity are good for the poor as they diminish estimated household income-inequality. Financial size … provide new insights into the two contrasting theories in the finance-inequality nexus. …
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Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to …
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The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
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which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure …) political liberalization has a disequalizing effect and; (3) economic freedom has a positive (negative) effect on inequality … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …
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